A Fate Worse Than Death? The Well-Being of Patients Diagnosed as Vegetative With Covert Awareness
Patients in the vegetative state are wholly unaware of themselves, or their surroundings. However, a minority of patients diagnosed as vegetative are actually aware. What is the well-being of these patients? How are their lives going, for them? It has been argued that on a reasonable conception of w...
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Ethical theory and moral practice
Year: 2017, Volume: 20, Issue: 5, Pages: 1005-1020 |
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disorders of consciousness
B Well-being B prudential interests B neuroimaging B vegetative state |
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